NEW: The first Kraken falls.
In an early ruling Judge Linda Parker in Detroit denies Sidney Powell's emergency motion to overturn Michigan election.
"The right to vote is among the most sacred rights of our democracy and, in turn, uniquely defines us as Americans." she writes.
This was the first judicial ruling on Powell's 4 "kraken" conspiracy cases around the country.
Judge Parker's reasoning was comprehensive, including that the suit was moot after Michigan certified its vote last month.
"This ship has sailed."
Judge Parker also found Powell's claims untimely.
"They waited too long to knock on the court's door."
A little judicial snark from Judge Parker here.
The suit also failed because the plaintiffs, Republican candidates for presidential electors, couldn't state a federal claim and had no standing.
That doesn't bode well for Powell's other suits, all of which make the same legal arguments.
Judge Parker doesn't weigh in on the crazy voting machine conspiracy theory Powell has made in this suit and the others.
Then again, she doesn't need to. She finds that on the law alone the plaintiffs aren't only unlikely to succeed in the matter but "are from likely to succeed."
Full ruling by Judge Parker here:
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8 Dec
SCOOP: Chris Krebs, the former head of the US cybersecurity agency, has filed a lawsuit against the Trump lawyer Joe DiGenova accusing him, the Trump campaign & the TV outlet Newsmax of a "pernicious conspiracy" to harm GOPers who stood up to POTUS' claims of election fraud. Image
Last month, after Krebs appeared on "60 Minutes" disputing claims of election fraud, DiGenova threatened him on Newsmax saying he should be "taken out at dawn and shot."
Krebs is suing for defamation and infliction of emotional distress.
Story soon. Image
In his suit, Krebs notes that he received so many threats by tweet, email, even text after DiGenova's remarks he and his family had to leave their home temporarily.
“Daddy’s going to get executed?” the suit quotes Mr. Krebs’s 10-year-old child asking him.
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7 Dec
NEW: From the Department of Last Ditch Efforts comes this new appeal to the Michigan Supreme Court by Trump campaign of a lawsuit it has already lost at two levels of state courts.
This one questions the validity of absentee ballots in Wayne County. It's been ruled moot twice. Image
In Arizona, meanwhile, the state defendants in Sidney Powell's "kraken" conspiracy case have filed a motion to exclude testimony from her "experts" at a hearing later this week (which may or may not even be held if the case is dismissed first.)
Key phrase: "wildly unqualified." Image
NEW: GOP has just come back to Pennsylvania now with yet another lawsuit--this one seeking an order forcing the governor to withdraw certification of the state's voting results. Image
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7 Dec
Good morning.
At 10 am there will be a hearing in Atlanta for Sidney Powell’s “kraken” conspiracy lawsuit to overturn the Georgia elections. Just this morning, a judge in Michigan tossed a similar effort to overturn that state’s results.
Here’s a quick primer on the GA case.
In Powell’s latest filing she says the vote in GA was “infected with fraud” on “multiple dimensions”: absentee ballots illegally counted, nonresidents voted, data shows “anomalous” number of votes to Biden. She also claims Dominion voting machines were hacked by foreign powers.
As proof she offers the now-discredited video of the vote count in State Farm Arena & several “reports” by “experts”—including a former military intel officer codenamed Spider--who use "statistical analysis" to prove that Biden could not have gotten as many votes as he did.
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4 Dec
NEW: Minnesota Supreme Court denies Republican-led effort to stop certification of state's voting result in a petition that questioned the handling of absentee ballots. Image
The high court ruled that the effort--on 11/24--to stop Minnesota's election certification was untimely given that the state set rules for handling absentee ballots more than two months earlier in September.
As @DemocracyDocket notes, the Trump campaign and its Republican allies are now 1-43 in post-election litigation.
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2 Dec
Sidney Powell's legal team is "dotting eyes" and crossing T's.
It's not a good sign when a judge has to explain to a lawyer the rules for requesting emergency relief.

That's what Judge Pamela Pepper in Milwaukee had to do this morning to Sidney Powell about her "Kraken" lawsuit filed there in federal court.
Judge Pepper also noted all the errors in Powell's motion.
*Mismatched fonts.
*No proposed order as promised
*No addresses listed for those who were supposedly served with the papers.
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1 Dec
NEW: GOP Rep. Mike Kelly of PA has asked SCOTUS for an emergency writ to stop the perfection of election results in the state as a first step toward the high court considering an appeal of his lawsuit dismissed over the weekend. Image
Recall that Kelly and others tried to have the 2019 Pennsylvania law that authorized mail-in ballots declared unconstitutional and retroactively nullify their use in this year's election.
The PA Supreme Court dismissed the suit on Saturday.
Kelly asked Justice Samuel Alito, who oversees emergency requests from PA's 3rd Circuit, to effectively freeze certification process in the state pending a potential appeal.
PA has already certified its vote but certain technical steps are still required b4 its electors vote.
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